This past Tuesday, a deadly tornado hit eastern New Orleans. It ran along the ground for about two miles and left total destruction in its path.
Mom Amanda Stockfelt, who works at an impound yard in the eastern part of the city, had been at work like any other day. But unlike most other days, she had brought along her 2-month-old baby named Autumn along because they had a doctor’s appointment later on.
Stockfelt had been keeping an eye on weather alerts when she suddenly heard what sounded like a freight train and realized that it was actually a tornado. “All I could think of was to put my daughter back in her car seat, to strap her in,” Stockfelt said. “I shoved her underneath my work desk and I got underneath it with her.” Seconds later, the tornado was ripping apart the trailer. “We heard the trailer ripping apart, it flipped over backward and it exploded. It was like the trailer just broke into a million pieces and then the tornado sucked us up.”
Thankfully, Stockfelt had managed to strap Autumn into her car seat because they got sucked up into the tornado as it passed by.“All I could think of when we were in the tornado is don’t let go,” the 35-year-old said. “I never let go because I was afraid if I let go, it was going to take her and I’d never find her. It was the most terrifying thing in my life. It’s a miracle, it really is.”
“I have no clue how I was able to hang on to that car seat but I did, because she was above my head,” Stockfelt said. “My tennis shoes were sucked off of my feet. I still haven’t found my shoes.” Stockfelt has no idea how long they were inside the tornado, but they miraculously landed just 10 feet from where the trailer was with just a few minor scratches and bruises. “It just looked like a bomb had exploded,” she said. Yet Stockfelt could focus on anything besides Autumn. “I thought she was dead,” Stockfelt said. “She wasn’t crying and at first her eyes were closed because of the dirt and the rain… I didn’t care about anything else. I didn’t feel my injuries ’till hours later.”
“I’m still trying to wrap my mind around it,” she said. “It’s just like you see that in a movie, and it happened to me and my 2-month-old daughter. We lived and I’m able to tell you our story. I don’t know, obviously, God has a plan for me and my daughter because other than by God’s grace, we shouldn’t be here.”
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Mom Saves Newborn After Getting Sucked Up In A Tornado is an article from: LifeDaily